St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25

From this on, in the intermediate
series OF his nymphs, plump and tall,
thin and short, there was this strange
and constant disagreement between the
fiourlshing, prosperous torSOS and the
Splndllng pins; the dryadS of Garnoteau
were truly like flowers blossoming upon
slender stems.
eff CeleStine had only remained
young this would have passed Deficient
in plentitude,
SHE Still. HAD FRESHNESS:
Besides. GarnOteau slightly amplified
that which he borrowed from his wife.
decidedly la vogue at that epoch,
they accepted from him everything, land
the meagerneSs of one-half of all his
nymphs was passed to the score of ele-
gance.
1.-The legs declared the critics, were
Florentine legs; this method of inter-
preting women pre-eminently spiritual
lStlc: these forms poetic, ethereal, intel
lectual. Garnoteau had mitigated, elim-
/ mated, all that which in the cOnstruc-
ton of the feminine body recalled prim-
tive bestiality. His nudities were
chaste; the sight of them calculated to
purify the hearts and elevate the souls
of the maSSeS!'
sat bound GarnOteau attained the
Academy!
''Unhappily, Celestine, too jealous in
her watching.
GREW THINNER AND THINNER,
The eXtremitieS of her husbands
nymphs contracting in proportion; and
through a desire, a need, unacknow-
lodged, of course. for he was loyal to his
compact even in thought, Garnoteau
gradually,as his wife emaciated, selected
for his torsos models more and more
iuXurlant. The contrast became so
glaring at last that the public ended in
perceiving it. Sales decreased and de-
creased.
'.Driven to do something, he changed
his style and began to paint-women
still, but small and adequately clothed;
he had no success. Then he was seized
with the ingenious Idea of painting
sirens: it was a way out of the difficulty
of Iegs-aboye all, of Nine. Garnoteau's
legs. Sirens also passed unperceived.
1T was Celestine he left who exacted
that he should return to his nymphs.
She had taken a taste for the serv-
ice, and
wEARIED FOR MORE POSING:
= The result being, as she had fallen away
more and more in spite of her long rest,
that the Florence legs had now become
the legs of hack. In the mean time
nymphs being the established speciality
of GarnOteau, nymphs. when he began
to paint them again, began to sell
little.
"'Thanks to mev' said Celestine. with
a simpering air; and when by chance
the pictures of her husband were
praised before her, in sections of course.
she lowered her eyes and gravely re-
sponded: The legs-above all-the
legs; they are exquisite, are they not?'
Among her other virtues Celestine
was an excellent manager, but while
enriching her husband in worldly goods
nourished him badly, deprived him of
all distraction, and regulated him in the
same way even in his supply of tobacco.
With the money achieved from the
nymphs she had made for him some ex-
cellent investments in lands and houses,
and convinced OF the secret graces of
her person, when he touched upon the
subject of his possessions or rents.
would reply to him with
A SIGNIFICANT SMILE,
or the question, TO whom dost thou
owe it? Avarice grew upon her with
age, and during the hours that she
posed for the legs-badly enough,
heaven knows, as she ran every instant
to skim the pot and spy upon the bonnie
she held the borders of her petticoat
between her teeth and knitted with her
arms in the air in order to lose no time.
The unfortunate Garnoteau, condemned
eternally to paint the Shin-boneS of his
wife, conceived for them horror little
to be wondered at.
but come with me while relate to
you the end of this histOry;" and rising
to his feet, my friend conducted me to
the house of Burand-Ruel and showed
me Danse de Nymphes, superb i'm
cOloring and execution, but remarkable
for the abnormal development of hips
and legs, massive as the pillars of
church.
From whom is it?'' I asked him.
astonished; who painted it?''
"GarnOteau!"
"What! Garnoteau?"
Gwen so, for Mad Garnoteau has
DEAD FOR SIX MONTHS;
that which you have just seen in the
Salon of Painting was the last thing
taken from her living"
81 believe that Garnoteau, who is
good man, has truly regretted Celestine.
He cried abundantly on the day of the
interment, for were they not the legs of
all his nymphs that they were conduct
ing to their last resting place? All the
same he had not forgotten that it was
upon piles like these" pointing to the
nymphs before u.s." thathe constructed
his reputation. He has returned to them,
but alas! apres les echasSieres DIES
calliyges, no models are now sufficiently
copious for him. You find him wander
ing always in the environs of Paris,
among the cowherds and keepers, seek
ing one that is equal to his dream, and,
when by force of eloquence or silver he
has decided them to pose for him, he
gives himself up, as you see, and pro-
duces these astounding extremities.
"But notice a trait" pursued my
friend, Eat once singular and touching,
while that which was formerly
SACRIFICED IN HIS PICTURES
Is here to-day; his torsos, ON the con-
trary, have dwindled away, spiritual
lied, in short, are as sober and as chaste
as if Garnoteau carried in his mind
that of Celestine herself. His nymphs
are always flowers, and have always
stems, but at present turned upside
down.
"You know, of course, the three
manners of Raphael, according to the
.Dictionnaire BOullet-he seeks, he finds,
he overreaches. They say that Gar
noteau also has had his three manners.
He painted at first assemblages of tor
SOC, with hips and legs of all sorts and